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Old 05-23-2018, 12:43 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
I don't know if I'd say it the same way (wickerbill) twice. It is true about the air that's ejected between the tire and the road.
No, no, I see what you were saying now that I've had time to think about it.

The rotating tire pulls or draws the air in the direction of rotation.

Meaning in the front of the tire air is moving downward, and at the rear of the tire the air is moving upward.

This is how we end up with vents at the top of wheel wells on race cars to release the pressurized air in the well accumulating at the top.

I just never micro analyzed the vortex leaving the wheel spat, and would like to see a CFD illustration of that one day.
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